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title: Do you still need TypeScript?
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date: 2024-06-17
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permalink: daily/2024/06/17/do-you-still-need-typescript
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- software-development
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- typescript
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- javascript
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Do you still need TypeScript?
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There have been many discussions and videos recently asking if people still need to use TypeScript.
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There have also been large open-source projects moving from TypeScript back to plain JavaScript.
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The popular approach is using JSDoc comments - similar to PHP docblocks - to replicate some of TypeScript's features, such as autocompletion in IDEs and text editors.
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The suggested benefits are cleaner code and no build step, making it easier to work with and contribute to the code.
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I like using types in PHP and using static analysis tools such as PHPStan so, naturally, I gravitated to TypeScript.
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I wrote a custom form with TypeScript and Vue.js that was an entrypoint to a Drupal Commerce application - populating data from Drupal using an API endpoint and determining and creating a cart with the correct items based on the customer's selections.
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Whilst doing so, I found TypeScript very beneficial and I'll probably continue to use it in the future.
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But, leveraging JSDoc more in situations where I can't use TypeScript, such as writing Tailwind plugins and Stimulus applications, is great to know and to get the best of both.
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